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S. M. FURMAN. SURGICAL BANDAGE. No. 288,478. Patented Aug. 21, 1883.

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` SAMUEL M. FURMAN, OFgHENDERSON, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO VILLIAM H. LEVIS, OF SAME PLACE.

su RGICAL BAN oAeE.'

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 283,478, dated August 21, 1883;

Application tiled December 7, 1882. (No model.)

' citizen of the United States, and a resident of Henderson, in the county of Henderson and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Surgical Bandages, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an improvement in surgical bandages, or such as are used by surgeons and physicians for dressing and setting broken or fractured limbs, fingers, die., or for correcting curvature of the spine or abnormal conditions or disigurations of ankles, wrists, te.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a portionof one of my improved surgical bandages. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same figure, taken through the line ./v fc of Fio. l.

rLillie bandage is formed of a strip of cloth or other suitable flexible material, A, of any suit-` able length and width. This cloth is doubled over lengthwise, lapped, and sewed together at the edge o, so as to `forni a bag, which is then filled with plaster-of-paris, together with correct proportions of chloride of sodium, sulphate 0fpotassa, or other chemical admintures,which, when moistened, tend to hasten the setting of the bandage into a firm and permanent dressing. The endV from which the bag was filled is then sewed up. The bag,

` when filled with a dry powder of such material, is then sewed crosswise, as shown at b, the

'seams not only keeping the band comparatively ila-t, but forming pockets which retain the material B in place and properly distributed throughout the bandage. r

By this method of applying the plaster much time and labor are saved and uncertainty of result is obviated, as the surgeon has only to apply and tighten the bandage to the patients limb or other' damaged part, in the usual manner, and then meisten the bandage, when the powder B will set and harden around the limb in a few seconds. By this improvement is also obviated the` annoyance and inconvenience in the handling of the plaster heretofore always attending similar operations where only a single strip of material-is used for binding,

and then covered with loose and dryplasterof-paris. N or does the hardening of the plaster take place so rapidly when used alone as when used in compound with one or more of the aforesaid ingredients, the sudden hardening of the dressing when applied being of course a great desideratum.

Instead of moistening niy bandage after its application to the fractured limb or other damaged part, it may be moistened immediately before being applied, provided, however, that in that case the application must be made very quickly, so as not to give the plaster time to harden before being tightened to the limb. When not moistened after adjustment by the surgeon, the bandage should be submerged in preferably wai-1n water.

To furnish my improved surgical bandage for the market it may be wound up in rolls on a central pin and incascd in a circular box; voi wider and larger pieces may be folded up and ineased in asuitable box, or it may be packed in any other suitable manner.

I am aware that medicated bandages and `pads containing medical preparations havf been made and more or less used, and I lay nc claim to appliances for any medicinal purpose whatever.

Having thus described my invention, I clain as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. As a new article of manufacture, ahoI low bandage of iiexible material filled witl plaster -of-paris or an equivalent substance that will easily set and harden after meisten ing, as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A surgical hollow banda-geformed of iieXi ble material, divided into pockets, and lle with a compound made of plaster-of-paris an( chloride of sodium or sulphate of potassa, sub stantially as and for the purpose hereinbeforl set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing a: my invention l have signed my name, in pres ence of two witnesses, this 1st day of Decem ber, 1882.

SAMUEL M. FURMAN. lVitnesses:

I. H. HART, Roer. D. Vasen. 

